Johann Ludolph von Oetken

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Johann Ludolph Oetken , from 1701 Johann Ludolph von Oetken (born April 12, 1653 in Oldenburg , † June 24, 1725 in Loy, district of Rastede ) was the Oldenburg office director.

life and career

Oetken came from a Westerstede farming family. His parents were the rent master Johann Oetken (1629–1679) and his wife Helene geb. Dagerath (1637–1696), the daughter of the merchant Christian Dagerath. He first attended the Latin school in Oldenburg and from 1665 continued to be taught by private tutors. In 1670 he finished school and initially studied theology and later law at the University of Kiel . In 1672 he moved to the University of Strasbourg . After completing his studies in 1673, he began an extensive educational trip through Switzerland, Italy, France, England and the Netherlands in the autumn of that year . In autumn 1675 he returned and in the following spring he became secretary of the Hereditary Prince Christian Eberhard of East Friesland , whom he in turn accompanied on his Grand Tour as an informator through Holland, France and Savoy. In the autumn of 1680 he returned to Oldenburg, because as a foreigner he had no chance of advancement in the East Frisian service. In the following years Oetken settled the complicated inheritance disputes after the death of his father, who died in 1679. Due to his career and his travels, Oetken was considered very educated and spoke several languages. In October 1683 he was therefore again employed as secretary, this time with the Danish Grand Chancellor Count Christian Detlev Reventlow (1644–1708). 1687 Oetken received for his services in this office the title and place of a real governing council at the Government Chancellery of ruled at that time by Denmark County Oldenburg . In 1696 he was promoted to the Real Council of Justice and in the same year was raised to the Danish nobility with his brothers. On April 30, 1701 he was appointed director of the Oldenburg government chancellery. In 1717 he was also given the title of budget councilor.

family

Oetken married on June 12, 1690 Margaretha Dorothea b. von Suhm (1674–1720). His wife came from the Danish noble family Suhm and was a daughter of the royal Danish State Councilor and administrator in Pinneberg , Heinrich von Suhm (1636-1700), and Margareta Dorothea von Felden (1648-1711). Her brothers were u. a. the Danish Colonel and later electoral Saxon and Polish Maj Ernst Heinrich of Suhm (1668-1729), later Danish Admiral Ulrik Frederik of Suhm (1686-1758) and the Electoral Saxony Diplomat Burchard of Suhm (1668-1729). The couple had six children, of whom the son Christian Eberhard Detlef (1691–1754) became a Danish major general. The daughter Sophie Catharina (1695-1727) married the Oldenburg bailiff Alrich von Witken (1693-1761).

Oetken's sister Sophia Catharina (1659–1710) was the first wife of the Oldenburg Oberdeichgräfen Anton Günther von Münnich (1650–1721), their son Johann Rudolf von Münnich (1678–1730) in turn married Oetken's sister-in-law Anna Christina von Suhm (1685–1721) ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danmarks Adels Aarbog 45 (1928), Afsnit 2, pp. 119–128
personal data
SURNAME Oetken, Johann Ludolph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oetken, Johann Ludolph; Ötken, Johann Ludolph; Öttken, Johann Ludolph (alternative spellings)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Oldenburg office director
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1725
Place of death Loy, district of Rastede